Dylen
Dylen was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,017 among boys’ names; 1,060 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Dylen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dylen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dylen?
#11,017 among boys’ names, 2025
Dylen fell from #3,174 in 2015 to #11,017 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.8 to 3.5 per million.
63 babies in 2004, the peak
Dylen peaked in 2004, when 63 babies were given it (58 boys, #2,055 among boys’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,017 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,501 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,004 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,089 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,004 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,660 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,514 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,376 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,134 | 13.5 |
| 2016 | 30 | #3,614 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,174 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,393 | 16.7 |
| 2013 | 37 | #3,012 | 19.6 |
| 2012 | 33 | #3,317 | 17.4 |
| 2011 | 44 | #2,712 | 23.2 |
| 2010 | 45 | #2,695 | 23.5 |
| 2009 | 37 | #3,122 | 18.7 |
| 2008 | 35 | #3,238 | 17.2 |
| 2007 | 52 | #2,453 | 25.1 |
| 2006 | 40 | #2,845 | 19.5 |
| 2005 | 52 | #2,271 | 26.0 |
| 2004 | 58 | #2,055 | 29.2 |
| 2003 | 42 | #2,481 | 21.3 |
| 2002 | 39 | #2,515 | 20.1 |
| 2001 | 44 | #2,281 | 22.6 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,143 | 23.9 |
| 1999 | 40 | #2,271 | 20.8 |
| 1998 | 32 | #2,610 | 16.7 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,925 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 31 | #2,492 | 16.4 |
| 1995 | 23 | #3,040 | 12.1 |
| 1994 | 24 | #2,969 | 12.4 |
| 1993 | 23 | #2,960 | 11.7 |
| 1992 | 27 | #2,613 | 13.5 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,558 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dylen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,060 Americans recorded as Dylen, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dylen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dylen, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,060 Americans ever recorded as Dylen. The median Dylen alive today is 20 years old; half are between 14 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,144 people named Dylen (83 women and girls, 1,061 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 999 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 135 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 657 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 250 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 453,262 babies since 1880, Dylen is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 6,903 babies (<1%), again the sixth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dylen
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dylen and names like it
- Compare Dylen and DylanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDylen peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dylen since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Dylen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dylen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.